From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 09 17:24:52 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CnoIH-0007sG-Iq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:24:29 -0800 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:24:29 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Help with "beak", please. Message-ID: <20050110012429.GN4597@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9211 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 11:04:15AM -0800, Jim Carter wrote: > "jgalu moklu" is tempting, but I think I'd prefer a proper > translation of "snout" as in "projecting mouth". But I wasn't > able to get a good gismu for "projecting". There's kruvi, for "curve" or "bend", and genxu for "hook" or "crook" shaped. There's also ze'o for "outward", which has rafsi "zev". There's also "bartu" which means "exterior". What about making a lujvo of "bartu moklu" for snout, and then attaching "jgalu" to that? Something like: barmo'u == b1=m1 is the exterior mouth / snout / mount organ extending outwards from body b2=m2 ja'urbarmo'u == j1=b1=m1 is the exterior hard mouth / beak extending outwards from body b2=m2=j2 I just noticed calku, but I'm thinking it shouldn't get involved because there's no shell *over* anything. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/